Here is youtube video from MusiCares, where Red Hot Chili Peppers performed, for the first time, with their new guitarist Josh Klinghoffer. They played the song called Man Needs A Maid by Neil Young. Enjoy!
So as you already know, Red Hot Chili Peppers performed on MusiCares event honoring Neil Young, and it’s their first performance with Josh Klinghoffer – a new guitarist replacing John Frusciante who has left the band.
Here are some pics from their rehearsal and performance
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Enjoy!
It seems like the upcoming MusiCares event will be streamed live on grammy.com after all… At least one part of it! Like the source reveals Portions of the Person of the Year event this year will be streamed live for the first time ever at grammy.com
So we can always hope we’ll get to see Red Hot Chili Peppers performing, and if not, there is always good old youtube friend! So as you already know, this year musicians will honor 2010 MusiCares Person of the Year – Neil Young, and it’s going to happen on January, 29th.
There is also another bit of news you might want to know about, and you probably all expected to hear… Seems like Josh Klinghoffer will be playing with them, and it’s almost certain now, since Dave Rat – Red Hot Chili Peppers sound engineer has just tweeted the following:
Ooh, rehearse Chili Peppers 1st gig w/ Josh K on guitar. Musicares, pre Grammy’s in honor of Neil Young.
I’m looking forward to hear them play again, and am getting excited to see how Josh will play his part! So stay tuned for more news, pictures and videos, I hope.
Flea and Chad attended and performed at the Flebass Booth (Booth #3192) at the NAMM Convention at 1pm, January the 16th. You can read more about NAMM if you’re interested. And here is a video of their performance – jamm session! Enjoy!
MusiCares will be held in Los Angeles Convention Center, West Hall, on Friday, Jan. 29, 2010. Among other multi-Grammy-winning musicians ( Jackson Browne, Crosby, Stills & Nash, Sheryl Crow, Everest, Josh Groban, Emmylou Harris, Norah Jones, K.D. Lang, Dave Matthews, John Mellencamp, Ozomatli, James Taylor, and Wilco ) Red Hot Chili Peppers are also announced to play.
They will all come to play to honor Neil Young as 2010 MusiCares person of the year – it is a special event celebrating his exceptional artistic achievements as well as his philanthropic work.
For more info about the whole thing, visit Grammy.com, or directly download the pdf, or doc file.
The possibility of seeing Red Hot Chili Peppers perform again, at an event like this, sounds really promising, especially now that they’re in the studio again, and the may as well come up with some new material by that time! Either way, seeing them play after all this time will be very refreshing nevertheless!
